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exporting tiff files

Asked by Justin Phillips

My publisher requires files delivered as 300 dpi tiff files. The online help files says this can be done with Batik. I have tried to make this work but have not yet been able to successfully export my work. How do I use the Batik software to export tiff files?

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Hachmann (marenhachmann) said : 		#1

Hi Justin,

if you're often converting between image formats, I'd suggest you rather use imagemagick: www.imagemagick.org/ , which can probably convert from every available raster image format to any other one.

This would mean you export to png, then use some 'convert blabla.png blabla.tiff' command (you may need to extend it a bit, but that's the basic command), and you're done. Or you could also write an extension that does that automatically.

If your publisher needs the files with a CMYK color profile, then using imagemagick is probably a good idea anyway, as Inkscape can only export to RGB color space.

If you don't have many files to convert, you could also consider opening them with a raster graphics editor (e.g. Gimp: http://gimp.org) and saving them as tiff from there.

Hope this helps,
 Maren

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